Bayern Munich vs Mainz 05 Betting Tips and Predictions

Bayern Munich maintained their 8 point cushion above their only real “title race” contender Borussia Dormund when they won away to Wolfsburg last Saturday. With 20 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss they could still mathematically break the league record they set in the 2012/2013 season (29 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss) for highest number or points in a season (91 points) but it will be a challenge.

Mainz 05 are in good-form and, as it stands, they too are on track to equalling, or potentially beating, their club record of a 5th place finish from the 2010/2011 Bundesliga season. With Mainz 05 aiming for European football this season and an adamant Bayern Munich on track for new records this match should have a lot of action.

Bayern Munich have the league’s best attacking duo Robert Lewandowski and Thomas Muller, who have scored a record combined 40 Bundesliga goals in 23 matchdays, and don’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. Needless to say also that Bayern Munich dominate any team they play against in the Bundesliga, especially at home at the Allianz Arena (having won every home game this season). The combined injuries of 3 of their most crucial central defenders Jerome Boateng, Javier Martinez and Holger Badstuber, clearly hasn’t cost them results because Bayern have continued to crush the league scoring almost free-willingly. Munich have, however, failed to keep a clean sheet more often than they would like since these defenders were missing. In 3 of the last 5 games across all competitions, Bayern Munich have failed to keep a clean sheet (twice to teams in the bottom half of the table). Mainz 05 are a team capable of goals (scoring 5 goals in the last 2 games) and they have scored at least 1 goal in all 5 of the last 5 games, even though they are missing their top scoring striker. With the above analysis a Bayern Munich win with both teams to score with a result of 3-1 at 9/1 seems likely for this fixture.

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